High-hole, or golden-winged woodpecker, or flicker (COLAPTES AURATUS LUTEUS; notes of; nest of. Highlands of the Hudson, the. Holywell. Honey, flowers which yield. Honey-bee, a product of civilization; wandering habits of; hunting wild bees; method of handling; as robbers; enemies of; Virgil on. Honeysuckle. Hooker, Sir Joseph. Hop-clover. Hornet, black. Hornet, sand. Hound, fox and. Hound's-tongue. Housatonic River. Houstonia, or innocence. Humble-bee. See Bumblebee. Humming-bird, ruby-throated (TROCHILUS COLUBRIS), in poetry; nest of. Hunt, Helen, quotation from. Hyacinth, wild. Hyla, Pickering's, or peeping frog; arboreal life of. Hylas, the story of. Indigo-bird or indigo bunting (CYANOSPIZA CYANEA; notes of. Innocence. See Houstonia. Insects, nocturnal. Iron-weed. Ivy. Ivy, poison. Jack, catching. Jay, blue (CYANOCITTA CRISTATA; notes of. Jewel-weed. Junco, slate-colored. See Snowbird. Katydids. Kingbird (TYRANNUS TYRANNUS), chasing an eagle; as a bee-eater; notes of. Kingfisher, belted (CERYLE ALCYON. Knapp, Hon. Charles. Knot-grass. Lady's-slipper, large yellow. Lady's-slipper, purple. Lady's-slipper, small yellow. Lady's tresses. Lake Oquaga. Lamprey. Lapwing. Lark. See Skylark. Lark, shore or horned (OTOCORIS ALPESTRIS and O. A. PRATICOLA) and note. Larkspur. Laurel, mountain. Leeks. Lettuce, wild, 230, inden. Linnæa. Live-forever. Liver-leaf. See Hepatica. Lobelia, great blue. Lobelia, scarlet, or cardinal flower. Locust-tree. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, his inaccuracy in dealing with nature; quotations from. Loosestrife. Loosestrife, hairy. Loosestrife, spiked, travels of; description of. Lowell, James Russell, quotations from; his fidelity to nature. Mallow. Mandrake. Maple, sugar; fragrance of its blossoms. Marigold, marsh. Martin, purple (PROGNE SUBIS). Masque of the Poets, A, quotation from. Mayflower. See Arbutus, trailing. Mayweed. Meadowlark (STURNELLA MAGNA); notes of. Merganser, hooded (LOPHODYTES CUCULLATUS), with a brood of young. Mice. Milkweed. Mink. Mitchella vine, or squaw-berry, or partridge-berry. Moccasin. Mockingbird (MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS), in poetry. Morning and forenoon, distinction between. Motherwort. Mount Vernon. Mouse, field. Mouse, white-footed, 169; tracks of. Mullein; habits of. Mullein, moth. Mullein, white. Musconetcong Creek. Muskrat; a weatherwise animal; active in winter; nests of. Mustard, wild. Nature, the poets' intuitive knowledge of; Emerson's knowledge of; Bryant's knowledge of; Longfellow's inaccuracy in dealing with; Whittier's treatment of; Lowell's fidelity to Tennyson's accurate observations of; Walt Whitman a close student of; the poetic interpretation of; the scientific interpretation of. Negro girl, a conversation with a. Nettle. Nettle, blind. Nettle, hemp. Nighthawk (CHORDEILES VIRGINIANUS. Nightshade. Note in the woods, a new. Oak, white. Onion, wild. Opossum.